Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 78

What shore these ocean-pilgrims landed upon has never been revealed; but tradition vaguely gives us to believe that it was some unknown island, far in the bosom of the Atlantic.

Who acts: shore, tradition · What happens: land, not reveal, give, believe, be, bosom · To what, where: us, unknown island, Atlantic · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shore, tradition), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 shore	det
2	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 landed	nsubj
3	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 pilgrims	det
4	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pilgrims	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 ocean	punct
6	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 landed	nsubj
7	landed	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	12 revealed	mark
9	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 revealed	aux
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 revealed	advmod
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 revealed	aux:pass
12	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 landed	ccomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 gives	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 gives	cc
15	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 gives	nsubj
16	vaguely	vaguely	ADV	_	17 gives	advmod
17	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 landed	conj
18	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 gives	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 believe	mark
20	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 gives	advcl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 island	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 island	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 island	cop
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 island	det
25	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 island	amod
26	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 believe	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bosom	punct
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	31 bosom	advmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 bosom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bosom	det
31	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 island	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Atlantic	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Atlantic	det
34	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 bosom	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 landed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	land	past	what shore			this ocean pilgrims nsubj	tree rules
2	not reveal	present · perfect · passive	what shore not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»
3	give	present	tradition		us	vaguely property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
4	believe	to-infinitive	tradition not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	past	tradition	some unknown island and the bosom of the Atlantic		the bosom of the Atlantic conj	tree rules
6	bosom			the Atlantic			nom bosom «state transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 78